HLA and skin cancer HLA e câncer de pele

• Main Authors: Renan Rangel Bonamigo (Author), André Vicente Esteves de Carvalho (Author), Vanessa Raquel Zaleski Sebastiani (Author), Cristina Martino da Silva (Author), Angela Caroline de Zorzi Pinto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Skin cancer - melanoma and non melanoma - are common neoplasm with rising incidence over the last decades. It is an important public health problem. Its pathogenesis is not completely understood and the same happens with the genetic factors involved. The genes that encode the HLA are associated with...